Hi
Okay, so this has been bothering me for months. So the second a boggart reveals itself it takes the form of what the closest person fears most, ie when the boggart was let out of the closet in nthe 3rd, it took the form of Snape, cos Neville was closest.
And how nobody knows what a boggart looks like when it is by itself in its cupboard or whatever.
Now, in the 5th there is a boggart in a draw at Grimwauld place. Mrs Weasely askes Mad Eye to take a look at it with his magical eye, and through several walls he sees in it the draw and says it is a boggart.
Now was the boggart already taking the form of what Mad Eye feared most, or could he see the boggart in its natural form? If so, what do you think its natural form was? and what do you think Mad Eye fears most???

I dont know what it would look like i always pictured just black mist or something. this bugged me to and i couldn't think what Moody would be afraid of i mean he's Moody and then i thought maybe failure so what Moody saw was something that represents failure, like Voldemort or the people he couldn't save.

But do you think he would see it as what he feared most, or as a boggart, since it was still in the draw?

I don't know, maybe because its looked upon it changes so yeah maybe (but it would be like a squishy change because its in a draw)

took the words right out my mouth

I say he saw it as the thing he fears the most...

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I disagree, I always figured he saw the bogart in its natural shape - of course, it would have made sense for him to describe it for the text book writers n stuff, but this Moody after all and besides JKR isn't always perfect. Thing is, it's when the bogart faces a new person (i.e. the nearest person) that it changes shape - it's not instantaneous and magical, it's the bogart itself that decides to transform.

Personally I imagine the bogart in its natural shape to be some slimy, fat green thing that's not very big

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